Privacy
What Field Notes keeps, and nothing more.
Field Notes keeps anonymous, cookieless reading statistics, what you choose to send (reactions and comments), and the email address of anyone who asks for new notes by email. This is all of it, in plain words.
What is counted
Which pages are read, how far down and for how long, and when a note is shared. Roughly where readers are (the country and region), their language, and the kind of device, browser and screen they read on.
What isn’t
The statistics use no cookies, store no IP address and never include anything you type. They can’t identify you, and they are never sold or shared with anyone.
Why there’s no cookie banner
There are no cookies to ask about, so none is needed.
What stays in your browser
Your light or dark choice and the notes you’ve read to the end are remembered by your own browser, for you. They are never sent anywhere.
Turning it off
Turn on “Do Not Track” or Global Privacy Control in your browser and no statistics are collected at all.
Reactions and comments
A reaction is a count, nothing more: to keep it to one each, a one-way code made from your connection with a key that changes every day is kept beside it for two days, and your browser remembers which ones you picked. A comment keeps the name, link and words you send, the time, and a one-way code made from your network address (never the address itself), so floods can be slowed and abuse blocked. Every comment waits until Jeremy reads it; only approved ones are shown, and he can remove any of them. Your browser remembers the name and link you typed, for next time. Ask, and he will delete yours.
If you sign up for email
Your email address is kept only to send you new notes, and only after you confirm it. It’s never shared or sold. The emails carry no tracking pixels and no tracked links, and every one has a one-click unsubscribe. Ask and the address is deleted for good.
On jeremyfhall.com
jeremyfhall.com keeps the same kind of anonymous, cookieless counts: visits to its pages, and how its terminal and its jeremyOS desktop are used (which commands and windows, never anything typed). Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control stops them the same way.